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95-110° at night for most of July, August, and September. Excuse me? Deserts cool significantly at night. If you look at USWS forecast for Mojave for this wee

95-110° at night for most of July, August, and September. Excuse me? Deserts cool significantly at night. If you look at USWS forecast for Mojave for this week, for example, the nightly low is never higher than 72F and usually less... and this is with the longest days of the year.

reaperducer 7y ago
Excuse me? You're excused. Deserts cool significantly at night Certain deserts cool significantly in certain places at night. "Deserts" are not identical nor homogenous. If you look at USWS forecast for Mojave for this week, for example, the nightly low is never higher than 72F There is no such thing as a "USWS forecast for Mojave." Perhaps you are thinking of the town of Mojave, California, which is one small place in a more temperate portion of a large desert? Regardless, this week and the entire year is not typical for the Mojave Desert. It has been unusually cool and moist. The Mojave Desert isn't Ohio. It doesn't have NWS weather stations every ten miles. The weather stations you see reporting on the internet are people with uncalibrated contraptions in their backyards, or computer-generated guesses. The NWS historical data page doesn't load right now, so here's a link from Wunderground for one year ago today in a populated place with a proper weather station: Las Vegas: https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nv/las-vegas/KLAS/date/2018-7-7 https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nv/las-vegas/K... It's far from the hottest place in the Mojave, but you can see that the low temperature, which occurred at 9pm was 93°. That is normal, not 72°. Anyone who's lived in the desert for any length of time can tell you that the numbers you see on the internet are far from the truth. NWS, quite reasonably, concentrates its efforts on populated and agricultural areas. I lived it for five years.
- masonic 7y ago
  You said you lived in the desert (and, here, imply an unpopulated area), not by airport tarmac which retains heat and reradiates it all night. You specifically chose the airport as your data point for this comment, and even it doesn't have 110F nighttime temperatures with any frequency.
- masonic 7y ago
  There is no such thing as a "USWS forecast for Mojave." Really? I just went to weather.gov and entered Mojave in the search box, and it gave a menu of options (more options for more detail). The top option says "Mojave Desert". Drilling down to the 10 day forecast shows the highest overnight low for the next 10 days at that top Mojave reference to be 70F. Sure, microclimates vary, but you made a general reference. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.41665000000006&lon=-115.58415999999994 https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.41665000000...

reaperducer 7y ago

Excuse me? You're excused. Deserts cool significantly at night Certain deserts cool significantly in certain places at night. "Deserts" are not identical nor homogenous. If you look at USWS forecast for Mojave for this week, for example, the nightly low is never higher than 72F There is no such thing as a "USWS forecast for Mojave." Perhaps you are thinking of the town of Mojave, California, which is one small place in a more temperate portion of a large desert? Regardless, this week and the entire year is not typical for the Mojave Desert. It has been unusually cool and moist. The Mojave Desert isn't Ohio. It doesn't have NWS weather stations every ten miles. The weather stations you see reporting on the internet are people with uncalibrated contraptions in their backyards, or computer-generated guesses. The NWS historical data page doesn't load right now, so here's a link from Wunderground for one year ago today in a populated place with a proper weather station: Las Vegas: https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nv/las-vegas/KLAS/date/2018-7-7 https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nv/las-vegas/K... It's far from the hottest place in the Mojave, but you can see that the low temperature, which occurred at 9pm was 93°. That is normal, not 72°. Anyone who's lived in the desert for any length of time can tell you that the numbers you see on the internet are far from the truth. NWS, quite reasonably, concentrates its efforts on populated and agricultural areas. I lived it for five years.

masonic 7y ago
You said you lived in the desert (and, here, imply an unpopulated area), not by airport tarmac which retains heat and reradiates it all night. You specifically chose the airport as your data point for this comment, and even it doesn't have 110F nighttime temperatures with any frequency.
masonic 7y ago
There is no such thing as a "USWS forecast for Mojave." Really? I just went to weather.gov and entered Mojave in the search box, and it gave a menu of options (more options for more detail). The top option says "Mojave Desert". Drilling down to the 10 day forecast shows the highest overnight low for the next 10 days at that top Mojave reference to be 70F. Sure, microclimates vary, but you made a general reference. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.41665000000006&lon=-115.58415999999994 https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=35.41665000000...